Yet none a deeper knowledge boafted, And all men dream on 't to be true, That in this world there's not a wart As thofe are in th' inferior world. He 'ad read Dee's prefaces before The devil and Euclid o'er and o'er; And all th' intrigues 'twixt him and Kelly, 225 230 235 240 Her fecrets understood fo clear, That fome believ'd he had been there; For cutting corns, or letting blood: Best to set garlic, or sow pease; 245 250 Who first found out the man i̇' th' moon, That to the ancients was unknown; How many dukes, and earls, and peers, Their airy empire, and command, Their fev'ral strengths by fea and land ; 255 What factions they 've, and what they drive at In public vogue, or what in private : With what defigns and interests He made an inftrument to know If the moon fhine at full or no; 260 That would, as foon as e'er fhe fhone, ftraight Whether 't were day or night demonstrate; Tell what her d'ameter to an inch is, 265 And prove that she's not made of green cheese. It wou'd demonftrate, that the man in The moon's a sea mediterranean ; And that it is no dog or bitch That stands behind him at his breech, 270 But a huge Cafpian sea or lake, With arms, which men for legs mistake; And what a goodly bay his nofe is ; How many German leagues by th' fcale 275 Cape fnout's from promontory tail. He made a planetary gin, Which rats would run their own heads in, Fright agues into dogs, and scare, 280 285 With rhymes, the tooth-ach and catarrh ; 290 Chase evil spirits away by dint Of fickle, horseshoe, hollow flint; Which made the Roman flaves rebel; And fire a mine in China here, With sympathetic gunpowder. He knew what s'ever 's to be known, Quickest when he's in wrath, or love; Of his own length, from head to rump, 295 300 305 310 |